Washington — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is asking for enter on a potential new methodology for figuring out whether or not motor carriers are match to function safely.
The company’s safety fitness willpower course of makes use of present motor service information and information collected throughout compliance evaluations to type a three-tiered score system of passable, conditional or unsatisfactory. In a discover printed Aug. 29, the company asks for stakeholder suggestions on potential revisions to the method.
“The intended effect of this action is to more effectively use FMCSA data and resources to identify unfit motor carriers and to remove them from the nation’s roadways,” the discover states. “A successful SFD methodology may target metrics that are most directly connected to safety outcomes, provide for accurate identification of unsafe motor carriers and incentivize the adoption of safety-improving practices.”
FMCSA is searching for enter on:
- The want for a rulemaking to revise the laws prescribing the safety fitness willpower course of.
- Available science or technical data to analyze regulatory options for figuring out the safety fitness of motor carriers.
- Current company safety fitness willpower laws, together with suggestions on the method and impacts.
- Available information and prices for regulatory options moderately doubtless to be thought of.
Additionally, the company requests enter on 12 particular questions associated to safety fitness determinations, together with whether or not to retain the three-tiered score system.
FMCSA notes within the discover that its safety fitness willpower system “is resource-intensive and reaches only a small percentage of motor carriers.” In fiscal yr 2019, the company and state companions performed fewer than 12,000 compliance evaluations amongst a inhabitants of greater than 567,000 interstate motor carriers.
Comments are due Oct. 30.
In 2017, FMCSA withdrew a proposed rule that may have modified the SFD course of for motor carriers.
